他taa1鄉hoeng1

English

1. foreign land
2. a place away from one's home town; foreign place or country
3. away from one's native place

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 離自己家鄉好遠嘅地方；外地；外國

Examples

• 遠走他鄉

  to go somewhere far away from one's hometown

• 他鄉遇故知

  bumping into an old friend in a foreign place

• 關山難越，誰悲失路之人。萍水相逢，盡是他鄉之客。

  The mountain passes are hard to cross; who will mourn for those who have lost their way? Meeting by chance like drifting duckweed, we are all but travelers in a foreign land.

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